HC wants report on prison guard recruitment fraud investigation
The court also ordered the report of the investigation committee which was formed after this incident
The High Court has asked the inspector general of prisons to submit a report within one month on what action has been taken so far against those responsible for fraud in the appointment of 88 prison guards in prisons across the country.
After the primary hearing on a writ petition regarding the issue, the High Court bench of Justice KM Kamrul Kader and Justice Mohammad Ali passed the order on Wednesday.
The court also ordered the report of the investigation committee which was formed after this incident.
At the same time, the court issued a rule asking the authorities concerned why actual Zahirul Islam should not be appointed as a prison guard, removing the one who impersonated Zahirul and has been working as a prison guard for 18 years in Sylhet Jail.
The home secretary, IG Prisons, DIG Prisons and senior jail superintendent of Sylhet Central Jail have been asked to respond to the rule within four weeks.
Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan and Abul Kalam stood for the petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Abdullah Al Mahmud Bashar represented the state.
Zahirul filed a writ petition attaching a newspaper report "Zahirul, from Kulaura wants to get back his job: working as a prison guard for 18 years through fraudulence proved in an investigation".
According to the report, Zahirul Islam Eshu passed the recruitment test for the post of a prison guard in 2003. Police verification was also completed but eventually, he did not receive the appointment letter.
After 18 years, Zahirul came to know that another person using his identity had been serving the job, which was proved during an investigation. The probe body headed by Sylhet deputy inspector general of prison submitted the probe report recently.
Zahirul wrote a letter to Sylhet deputy inspector general of prison seeking his job back. Getting no response from him, he filed the writ petition.